From: David Belohrad <david@belohrad.ch>
To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>, notmuch <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: how the date query works?
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Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 16:29:21 +0200
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thanks to everybody. i have completely missed that man page.

.d.



Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> writes:

> On Mon, 20 May 2013, David Belohrad <david@belohrad.ch> wrote:
>> When I open in emacs search, and I type 'date:today', some output
>> appears, but not the one I would expect.
>
> The date: search expects a Xapian range expression, which requires ".."
> to be present in the query. For example, date:today..today from
> beginning of today to end of today, which I believe is what you're
> after. Half open ranges are okay, too, so assuming you don't have much
> mail from the future, simply date:today.. will do.
>
> Unfortunately, due to a limitation in Xapian, we can't flag an error or
> do the right thing given a date: search without the range expression
> ".."
>
>> Is there any kind of manual how to use it? I'm of course particularly
>> interested in 'today', 'yesterday', 'last week', 'last month' :)
>
> The search terms manual page, 'man notmuch-search-terms', which is also
> available at http://notmuchmail.org/manpages/notmuch-search-terms-7/
> gives a pretty good summary on the date search, including the
> limitations.
>
> HTH,
> Jani.